Exam 6: Memory-Part A

Godden and Baddeley (1975)demonstrated that scuba divers who memorized a list of words underwater subsequently remembered more of those words when tested:

College students typically recall more good grades than bad grades when they look back at their high school experiences.This memory phenomenon is known as:

The finding that encoding of survival-related information is subsequently easier to recall than other types of information is MOST consistent with which psychological perspective?

Using social pressure,Shaw and Porter (2015)got _____% of the college students in their study to falsely remember committing a crime as adolescents.

Which statement summarizing research on whether training working memory skills improves cognitive performance on non-memory-related tasks is TRUE?

Rachel's 15th birthday is on Friday.Her mother and father ask her to choose between Olive Garden and Red Lobster for her birthday dinner.Rachel remembers that she more recently ate at the Red Lobster.Because of this,Rachel decides that she would like to go to Olive Garden for her birthday dinner.What type of memory did Rachel utilize in making her decision?

A participant studied the following word pairs: reptile-snake,reptile-turtle,reptile-lizard,amphibian-frog,amphibian-salamander,and amphibian-newt.Then the participant practiced recalling only the amphibian-salamander pair using the prompt "reptile-liz_____." Sometime later,the participant was given a memory test of the words he had originally studied.Of these,which word would be MOST likely forgotten?

People suffering from the same disorder as patient HM would MOST probably not be able to:

Iconic memories usually decay in about _____ or less.

Jessica Li held up three rows of four letters on a poster board to her high school class for a fraction of a second.She then removed it and immediately asked the class to name the letters in the top,middle,or bottom row.Based on previous research,about how many letters in the row would you expect individual students to recall?

_____ is a type of explicit memory that consists of a network of associated facts and concepts that make up our general knowledge of the world.

A frazzled mother trying to pacify her fussy toddler while paying her bill at the supermarket suddenly realizes that she has forgotten to get the most important item on her list.Forgetting to purchase the item is an example of:

When you try but fail to remember something,your _____ shows increased activity,whereas when you successfully remember something,your _____ shows increased activity.

An instructor studies his class roll for 15 minutes on the first day of class in an attempt to remember student names.The next day,he finds that he can only recall the names at the beginning of the roll.This BEST illustrates the _____ effect.

Which statement accurately summarizes the effects of sleep on long-term storage?

A witness to a bank robbery was interviewed and asked to provide details about the suspect's race,age,facial characteristics,height,weight,and clothing.Sometime later,the witness was interviewed again and asked to provide additional details.Which would the witness be LEAST likely to recall?

Eric Kandel won a Nobel Prize in 2000 for his research investigating:

Anthony is given a list of 20 objects to memorize in order.Anthony imagines a walk from home to school and pictures one of the objects on each street corner.Which memory technique is Anthony MOST likely using?

Which statement regarding hippocampal activity is TRUE?

Why did neurosurgeons remove portions of HM's temporal lobes?